Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to know if other distributions also consider separating > libraries from applications to be a best practice.
Debian has also long considered this to be best practice. AFAICT it is absent from the Debian Best Packaging Practices guide <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html>, but that's more a guide for Debian package maintainers, rather than for upstream developers. It is stated on the Debian wiki "Software Packaging" page <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/SoftwarePackaging#head-f317098e457eb68a233c87d622f8cf0052c28858> which is a page targeted to upstream developers, asking them to "be Friendly to Your Packagers". > If so, would you be willing to collaborate on getting upstreams to > see our point of view? […] I think this is an excellent idea (though I can't speak for Debian Developers). Education in matters of common practice requires clear, consistent messages from various parties, which implies coordination would be helpful. -- \ Eccles: “I'll get [the job] too, you'll see. I'm wearing a | `\ Cambridge tie.” Greenslade: “What were you doing there?” | _o__) Eccles: “Buying a tie.” —The Goon Show, _The Greenslade Story_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
